How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy
Director Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht
Countries France, United States
Duration 64 min
Synopsis
The film documents a year-2000 visit that Les Blank made to Richard Leacock in France. Conversations between the two legendary filmmakers, who have both since passed away, explore Leacock’s life and work as a charismatic and trailblazing documentary filmmaker and co-founder of America’s Cinema Verité, which forever changed the way non-fiction films are made.
The film documents a year-2000 visit that Les Blank made to Richard Leacock in France. Conversations between the two legendary filmmakers, who have both since passed away, explore Leacock’s life and work as a charismatic and trailblazing documentary filmmaker and co-founder of America’s Cinema Verité, which forever changed the way non-fiction films are made.